[meteorite-list] The search for aliens should start on Earth not outer space, says scientist

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:43:08 -0500
Message-ID: <f0osl55dgbsr7odvtqfj8lleaevris6lq5_at_4ax.com>

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:43:06 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>
>The point that I went over the top trying to make is that
>all life on earth is native to it.

Unless the first life was native to Mars, or maybe Venus, and hitched a ride
here during the Late Heavy Bombardment...

>If we find a new species here ...it is just that...a new
>species. When we meet a new form of life off world...
>it is that which should be called "alien".

I think the problem is in concidering "alien" to mean only "life from another
planet" when what he really means is "really, really frickin' weird." Something
more different from everything living today than _E._coli_ is from Michael
Bubl?. Something that predates LUCA, as there must once have been such
organisms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_ancestor
Received on Mon 25 Jan 2010 10:43:08 PM PST